Stacy Kamehiro's research focuses on colonial Hawaiian visual and material culture.  She has published on textiles, architecture and race images in nineteenth-century American trade card lithography, and scientific images produced during Pacific voyaging expeditions. Her book, The Arts of Kingship (University of Hawai'i Press, 2009), offers a sustained and detailed account of Hawaiian public art and architecture during the reign of David Kalakaua, the nativist and cosmopolitan ruler of the Hawaiian Kingdom from 1874 to 1891. Kamehiro's current work examines the politics of art organizations in Hawai'i following the overthrow of the monarchy as well as nineteenth-century Hawaiian material culture collecting and exhibition practices in local and international contexts.

ARI Supported Project:  Pacific Arts is the only international, open access, online scholarly journal dedicated to the study of Oceanic visual and material culture. The publication began in 1975 as a newsletter, but grew to such an extent that it became a full-fledged journal in 1990 and has continued since. Pacific Arts is a well-established journal that has an international reputation.

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